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Hidden Potential

The Science of Achieving Greater Things

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Hidden Potential

Written by: Adam Grant
Narrated by: Adam Grant
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We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess-it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

©2023 Adam Grant (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Success Self-Help Success

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This remarkable book reveals what it takes to become a better version of yourself. Adam Grant lights the way to developing talents that once seemed beyond your abilities and achieving goals that once seemed out of reach
I read Hidden Potential in one sitting, loved it, and have been thinking about it ever since. Which is the highest praise I can give a book. This is Adam Grant's finest work-it will inspire you to bigger dreams
This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress
Very good... Explores how most talented and successful people were not born that way; they are simply better at learning. It's an enjoyable exploration into the difference between character and personality
Grant takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the factors that lead to success . . . Policymakers and executives ought to play close attention to the final section of the book: how to build structures that create opportunity for all
This is a book that should be read by parents, leaders, coaches, and every school board member in America. Adam Grant reveals that everything you think about developing potential is wrong
Wickedly entertaining and deeply insightful, Adam Grant has done it again. You have more in common with Mozart and Steph Curry than you know, and Hidden Potential will show you how to achieve your absolute best. You'll devour it and find yourself begging for more
Hidden Potential teaches us to reach new levels of mastery and unlock our greatest resource: our humanity. We would all be better off if we took Adam Grant's wise counsel seriously!
Writing with authority and clarity, Grant examines how talents can be discovered, developed, and turned into achievement
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Good book, but sometimes it generalizes events too much. I would like to recommend it.

Good book

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Adam Grant looks at potential from many different angles and offers practical and thought-provoking insight. I loved the concept of work samples and the interdependent approach to making things happen. The audiobook has been creatively produced making for an extremely enjoyable listen.

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Great book, excellent stories and studies. Enjoyed listening to this. Thank Adam. Highly recommended it.

Find your hidden potential

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I like it most that Adam Grant himself read this book. It was very informative.

Adam grant at his peak

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I follow all of Adam Grant's work and I was looking forward to reading this book. But as I love listening to his podcasts, I decided I'll try listening to this one. Apart from the brilliant subject matter that is a great mix of research evidence and people's stories, the production of this audio book is so good that I would listen to this first thing in the morning after waking up. There were so many parts where I teared up listening to the personal stories. For someone who always doubts themselves and holds themselves back, and struggles with self belief, this was such an inspiration and a wake-up call! Thank you so much, Adam and team for this book and making it available in audio.

Only thing better than reading Adam Grant's books!

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